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The National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America (NCBFAA) is frustrated by what it perceives to be a lack of follow-up by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials after the agency's Thursday calls with the trade. "All too often, questions that impact the entire trade...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said its officers in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, last week coordinated the shipment of "hundreds of pounds" of apparel and "more than a dozen" generators to the Bahamas in support of the hurricane recovery effort there.  Slow-moving Hurricane Dorian, with...

Many professions require some form of continuing education for individuals to maintain licenses and certifications. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) wants the nation's estimated 11,000 licensed customs brokers to meet similar standards for professional growth.  CBP Deputy Commissioner...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is making good on its mandate to detect and halt import products that include the use of child or forced labor during their manufacture.  The agency announced October 1 the issuance of five "withhold release orders" covering five imported products from five...

Air freight forwarders foresee the benefits of filing electronic air-cargo manifests with Customs and Border Protection (CBP), but many are still reluctant to climb on board without clearer direction from the agency.  "Forwarder participation in CBP's voluntary Electronic Export Manifest [EEM]...

When it comes to determining the fairness of assessing demurrage and detention fees, one of the most challenging aspects for both the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission and ocean shipping industry involves container retrieval delays resulting from government inspections. "Imposition of demurrage and...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has seized multiple express shipments of counterfeit jewelry in Louisville, Kentucky, since mid-July.  The agency said the trademark-infringing jewelry had a collective value of more than $90 million if genuine.  The first three shipments of faked jewelry were...

The U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security on Sept. 24 approved a proposed fiscal year 2020 operations budget of $18.1 billion for Customs and Border Protection. The proposed CBP budget, which is part of a $70.7 billion bill to support the Department of Homeland Security's...

After nearly five years of development and testing, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) said it is about ready to start receiving electronic data related to live plants and animal products from importers and customs brokers. Nicole Russo,...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it will start on Sept. 28  the test of a new import entry type, which it said will improve its ability to monitor the safety and security of low-value shipments.  Known as the Entry Type 86, the test will cover imports with a de minimis value of less than $...

James Swanson, director of U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Cargo Security and Control Division, hasn't taken his eye off the agency's goal to make the nation's export manifest filing and review processes fully automated. For the past year, CBP has conducted so-called electronic export...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is seeking to expand industry participation in its electronic pilot program to collect advance data related to e-commerce shipments with import values of less than the $800 de minimis.  The so-called Section 321 E-Commerce Data Pilot was announced by CBP on...

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Border checkpoint affecting truck wait times; Protestors shut down Houston Ship Channel; Trailer Bridge moves into Mexico market; Texas trucking company indicted for drug...

U.S. Customs officers at Los Angeles International Airport recently confiscated 28 counterfeit National Basketball Association championship rings with a retail value of $560,000, the agency said Sept. 11. The officers discovered the jewelry while examining an air cargo package that arrived from...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection sent notice to the trade on Labor Day that its operations at the ports of Brunswick and Savannah would close at noon in advance of Hurricane Dorian's approach to the Georgia coastline. CBP said it has also designated local closure days for Sept. 3-4 to anyone who...